Google of course scan all files they distribute, using all the tools and technology they have.

Depending on phone variant (TA-????), mobile operator, and country, the firmware may come with a custom app store (and other local apps) which may use aptoide.com as backbone.

In my opinion you trust the anti-virus program and a random person in their forum too much. It is incompetent to claim a virus just because it has aptoide in the .apk file name.

I will never install any app that requires as many permissions as the Dr.Web anti-virus. VirusTotal Mobile (by FunnyCat) maybe, but only if had an old phone on Android 4 or 5 without security updates and without Play Protect, and I was forced to get apps from friends and unofficial places.Modern Android versions are only vulnerable to virus if rooted...

Application file name com.aptoide.partners.id3_store.apk included in our OTA version 5.22A is not a virus. ID3 Store apps is an application required for one of our local user package. Due to the OTA package is released worldwide for Nokia 6, this apps will be included but it is activated only in the market where it is required.

The simple thought that HMD Nokia is to put a virus in a OTA SW package is, little to say, ridiculous.

C'mon people, this are Nokia phones after all.

I do not know what antivirus our colleague Pavel is using, but just the name of the file coming with a SW update says it all.

There are lots of android devices that have embedded files with content that is not being used, as some of them are made to work in specific environments by specific request. Do not forget that the devices are made to work worldwide.